Increasing the level of spacecraft autonomy is essential for broadening the reach of solar system exploration. Computer vision has and will continue to play an important role in in...
Larry Matthies, Mark W. Maimone, Andrew Edie Johns...
This paper investigates kinetic behavior of a planetary rover with attention to tire-soil traction mechanics and articulated body dynamics, and thereby study the control when the ...
NASA’s Mars Exploration Rovers (MER) have collected a great diversity of geological science results, thanks in large part to their surface mobility capabilities. The six wheel r...
Jeffrey J. Biesiadecki, Chris Leger, Mark W. Maimo...
This work achieves an efficient acquisition of scenes and their depths along long streets. A camera is mounted on a vehicle moving along a straight or a mildly curved path and a sa...
ut spatial environments, be it real or abstract, human or machine. Research issues range from human spatial cognition to mobile robot navigation. Numerous results have been obtaine...
Christian Freksa, Holger Schultheis, Kerstin Schil...